| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
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Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Performer |
Jirí Lábus, Oldrich Kaiser |
| Event |
Originally produced by Deaf Crocodile Films in 1986. |
| Summary |
Director Jiří Barta’s stop-motion animated masterpiece, based on The Pied Piper of Hamelin, is set in a dark and twisted medieval village of narrow streets and weird Gothic arches, half-CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and half-Jan van Eyck. The money-obsessed citizens, carved out of wood blocks and speaking in an onomatopoeic babble (invented by Barta himself) are like George Grosz caricatures, literally spouting coins from their mouths instead of words. The rats are far more organic and sympathetic, made of real fur and whiskers, constantly tunneling and burrowing under the towering arches and cobblestone streets above. (In one of the film’s many surreal moments, a rat emerges from a gargoyle’s gaping maw.) Fans of fellow Czech animation legend Jan Švankmajer and the Brothers Quay will adore Barta’s weird Expressionist gem. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Foreign films.
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Motion pictures.
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Horror films.
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Science fiction.
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Fantasy fiction.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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| Added Author |
Barta, Jirí, film director.
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Lábus, Jirí, actor.
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Kaiser, Oldrich, actor.
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Deaf Crocodile Films (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
14820111 Kanopy |
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